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Lyonsiidae

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Description

Lyonsiidae is a family of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Anomalodesmata.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonsiidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6867	https://www.gbif.org/species/6867
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	60994	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=60994

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lyonsiidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Pandorida : Lyonsiidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Poromyata	Ridewood 1903
order	Pandorida	Stewart 1930
superfamily	Pandoroidea
family	Lyonsiidae	Fischer 1887

Scientific Name

Lyonsiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lyonsiidae	family	belongs to Pandoracea	stated with evidence	Newell, 1965
Lyonsiidae	family	belongs to Pandoroidea	stated without evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Lyonsiidae	family	belongs to Anomalodesmata	stated with evidence	Bieler and Mikkelsen, 2006
Lyonsiidae	family	belongs to Myochamoidea	implied	Nevesskaja, 2009
Lyonsiidae	family	belongs to Pandoroidea	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Lyonsiidae	family	belongs to Pandoroidea	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

8 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 197 Ma
Early Jurassic

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Common Name(s)

サザナミガイ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonsiidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anticorbula genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Entodesma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hiatella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		393	242 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Lyonsia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		34	201 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Mytilimeria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Ostomya genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Spinolyonsiella genus	listed (PBDB)		1	13.7 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Lyonsiidae Fischer
1965	Lyonsiidae Newell p. 21
1980	Lyonsiidae Vokes p. 208
1983	Spinolyonsiellidae Scarlato and Starobogatov
2000	Lyonsiidae Coan et al. p. 466
2006	Lyonsiidae Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 231
2009	Lyonsiidae Nevesskaja
2010	Lyonsiidae Bouchet et al.
2011	Lyonsiidae Carter et al. p. 18

References

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Newell N. D. (1965) Classification of the Bivalvia, American Museum Novitates 2206, 1-25

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Bieler R., Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Bivalvia - a look at the branches, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148, 223-235

Nevesskaja L. A. (2009) Principles of Systematics and the System of Bivalves, Paleontological Journal 43 1, 1-11 doi:10.1134/S0031030109010018

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Carter J. G., Altaba C. R., et al (2011) A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca), University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4, 1-47

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

WoRMS (2016) Accessed through World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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